The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1887-11-17
EARTH TO EARTH.
The Five Dead Anarchists Find
Rest at Last.
The Funeral Procession Witnessed by a
Large Crowd Eulogies Delivered
Were Infiammatory Harsn-
gues-Everything Quiet.

Large Crowd-Eulogies Delivered
Were Infammatory Haran-
gues-Everything Quiet.
CHICAGO, Nov. 14.-The funerals of
the dead Anarchists took place yester-
day afternoon as was previously an
nounced in the dispatches in the DEMO
Graf. Everything passed off quietly,
no disturbances being reported at pO
lice headquarters. The procession
started according to the program, TAX
ing up the bodies of the dead men in
the order in which the residences were
passed. The relatives rode behind the
heaTse of each. Mrs. Parsons was crazy
with grief before her husbands body
was taken from the house. and was
quieted with difficulty. The inscrip-
ton on Parsons coffin read as follows
albert r. Parsons, aged 80 years, mur
dered by the State of Illinois, NOvem-
Der II. 1887" The procession, as viewed
from the Lake street bridge comprised
some 10000 people. Immense crowds
of people lined the streets as the pro-
cession moved towards the cemetery.
None but the American flags were used,
here and there being one at half-mast.
a band with crimson faced uniform
led the way, with the most mOurnful
dirge of the day. High on the should
ers Of their associates were the black
collins of the anarchists, each half hid
den by draping of flaming red. On
either side of the road, for the first
quarter mile, were ranged long lines of
people just as in the city streets. APP
preaching the huge uIlsightly red brick
cute, however, there was scarcely a
h imam being to be seen outside the or
ganization following the collins. When
the five corpses were once inside the
cemetery a bell was heard tolling, but
in a quick, agitated manner that re-
minded many of the name of Parsons
fierce mOuth-piece,
THE ANARCHIST ALARM.
The uncanny sound had hardly ceased
when the collins We're brought to a
5tandstill and laid upon Il rude little
platform, in front Of which seemed to
a rough stone hut. pertectless, window
less and with only one small door. y
momeutlater a person could not stira
foot many direction SO thick had the
crowd become. The relatives of the
dead men were quickly gathered beside
Captain Black on the platform, but in
tuc gathering darkness the only
features that could be distinguished
were the cleaning eyes of parsons wife,
the pale, agonized brow Of Nina Van
Iant, and the gross looking form of Ida
Friedel, Louis Linggs girl"
Without any preliminaries whatever,
Captain Black began the first of the
funeral OratiOnS. 1t was cOuched in
clear cut, elegant periods, but had no
more effect on the listeners than had the
INSCRIPTIONS ON THE GRAvESToNES
scattered about. He said: "What is
truth? Through eighteen centuries
and more the answer of that loyal, that
glorious one Of Nazareth to that ques-
ton was in these words: 4 am truth
And no man knows truth until it has
become the inspiration Of his life, and
he is crowned in death. These men
have kept loyal to the convictions that
entered into their lives. am not here
this afternoon to speck to you any spec
ial words concerning the cause for
which these men lived. nor concerning
the manner of their taking off, but to
speak to you like friend, to tell you
that the cause which commanded their
services was sealed at last by their lives,
with unstintGd measure for the sake Of
those they loved. You know how
grandly they passed out of this life into
the
PERFECT AND GLORIOUS LIFE
that is beyond the reach of misjudg-
ment. We are not here beside the
caskets of felons consign ed to ignomin
ious DEATH We are here beside the
btlllNS VI lIlDot Nut NtI' Nllblllilt III
their sclf-sacriice. and for whom the
gibbet became the glorious cross.
They have been painted and presented
to the world as men loving violence,
and riot. and bloodshod for its own
sake. Nothing could be further from
the truth. They were men who loued
peace, whose hearts were full of tender
ness, who We're loved by those who
knew them, trusted by those who Gang
to understand the glory and power If
their lives. And the anarchy Of whidh
they spoke and taught, whgt was it but-
an attempt to answer the question:
After the revolution, whatY They
believed that there was that of wrong
and hardship in the existing order
which
POINTED TO CONFLICT,
because they believed that sellishness
would not surrender peaceably and of
its own motion to righteousness. And
the whole thought of their philosophy
as Anarchits, was the establishment Of
an order of society that should by SYM
bolized in the worlds order without
force Is it practical? | know not.
They thought twas. l know now that
it is not practical now But | know
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